 After the beginning of the Eritrean War of Independence in 1961, following pressure from Haile Selassie I on the Eritrean Assembly, the federation was officially dissolved and the autonomy of Eritrea withdrawn.It was annexed by Ethiopia on 15 November 1962, becoming the integral Province of Eritrea.As an autonomous province within Ethiopia, Eritrea had its own democratically elected regional parliament, its own constitution, its own regional government, and Tigrinya and Arabic as its official languages - as opposed to Amharic in the rest of Ethiopia.